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Tuesday, 17 June 2014

Welcome to Krysten Lindsay Hager

Over the next few months I'll be
bringing you some different authors and their new releases here on my
blog. Today I'm delighted to welcome Krysten Lindsay Hager who is
talking about her début YA novel TRUE COLORS.

Krysten is an
author and book addict who has never met a book store she didn’t
like. She’s worked as a journalist and also writes middle grade,
YA, humour essays, and adult fiction.

Her début novel, TRUE COLORS,
is released June 17th from Astraea Press. Krysten is originally
from Michigan USA and has lived in South Dakota, Portugal, and currently
resides in Southern Ohio where you can find her reading and writing
when she’s not catching up on her favourite shows.

ABOUT TRUE COLORS

Landry Albright enters a modelling
competition with her two best friends, but runs into jealousy when
she advances to the next level without them. Enter the gorgeous
Devon, who also makes the first cut of the modelling contest. Devon
seems like the perfect new best friend, but can their friendship
survive the competition? Throw in a new boy, jealousy and loyalty
issues, and insults from hair stylists. How’s a girl to deal?

Back Cover
Blurb:

Every day I walked down the sidewalk
to school and wished I were one of the interesting popular girls who
ran up with exciting news. Just once I’d like to be one of those
girls instead of the being the one who didn’t get invited to things
because people “forgot” about me.

Landry gets pushed into trying out for
the American Ingénue reality show modelling competition with her two
best friends. She doesn’t think she stands a chance, but she
advances to the next level in the competition and her friends ignore
her when they get cut.

Enter the gorgeous Devon, who also
makes the first cut and includes Landry in her clique. Devon becomes
the perfect best friend, but can their friendship survive the
competition?

Landry hopes her big break could come
at any moment, but soon sees there’s much more to modelling. She
begins missing out on being with friends and has the chance to have a
boyfriend when she meets a boy named Vladi from another school.

Part of Landry wants to be famous (and have her hair look good for
once), but part of her just wants to be accepted. She learns about
friendships, being true to yourself, and that a good hair conditioner
doesn’t hurt.

A little competition can really
bring out people’s true colors.

Excerpt:

The competition was
for girls between the ages of thirteen and seventeen, but it felt
like Ericka, Tori, and I were the youngest ones there. I only saw a
couple of girls from school, and the lineup looked more like
something you’d see on a music video set. All the girls were
gorgeous, and they had these curvy womanly bodies. I looked like a
skinny little kid next to them. The first girl walked out, and I
heard the judges say she “owned the runway,” and, “walked like
a gazelle.” I was starting to feel ill. I wasn’t sure which way
it was going to come, but I knew I had to find a bathroom — fast. I
started to get out of line when Ericka grabbed my wrist.

“It’s
almost time,” she said. A tiny bit of spit flew out of her mouth
and hit my cheek.

I
wasn’t sure why she was so intent on me going through with it, but
she had a death grip on my arm, so I didn’t have much of a choice.
Her number was called and she walked out to the stage. One of the
other girls said she walked like a kid with sand bucket stilts on her
feet, but she came back with a smirk on her face like she knew she’d
get chosen.

“They
said they had never seen such long legs,” she said.

Tori
was next.

“She
walks like a gorilla at feeding time,” said the girl behind me. I
went next, and I tried to focus on not tripping over my feet. My
mom’s pumps had a rubber sole on the bottom, which probably wasn’t
the brightest idea seeing as my shoes were making squeaking noises as
I walked. I was so nervous I couldn’t stop smiling as I walked. I
looked like the plastic clown who blows up balloons with its mouth at
the Pizza Palace. When I got to the end of the runway, I tried to
cross my feet to turn like the other girls had, but I over rotated
and ended up doing a full spin which made my kilt fan out and gave
the mall walkers a view of my blue underpants. I tried to act like it
was intentional and did an extra turn. One of the judges put her hand
up to stop me, and I held my breath as she started to speak.

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